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Potassium deficiency can be easy to detect due to obvious symptoms like intolerance to salt or magnesium.
Other symptoms include heart problems, fatigue, muscle cramps, edema, and food allergies, especially to dairy.
My grandmother died before I was born and one of the symptoms was lymph-edema or swelling of the legs. My sister and mother have this, too. My mother responds well to increasing potassium, and must as a prerequisite to tolerating all other supplements and some foods, since potassium is her number one deficiency that holds everything else back.
I believe potassium deficiency is a big part of the problem of lymphatic congestion, along with nutritional excesses and lack of movement.
People with potassium deficiency tend to react to salt because sodium and potassium need to be in balance to work together and too much of one makes not enough of the other worse.
Potassium is crucial for health as part of the foundational triad with sodium and magnesium necessary for assimilating all other nutrients. These are the electrolytes associated with hydration. Potassium and sodium form a pump across the cell membrane to help bring nutrients in and waste out. When this isn’t working you are not absorbing nutrients and can be “allergic to everything.” Magnesium has more roles in the body than any other nutrient. Dairy allergies are especially common with potassium deficiency, even to raw milk which is much better than heated pasteurized milk. .
I observe that potassium is not well absorbed from supplements, but is best from vegetables, fruits, and even seafood.
While for sodium, salt works just fine, potassium salts like potassium chloride can be harder to utilize. If you want to try that get the one with the least additives, especially vegetable oils. Nu Salt is a better brand.
What many people do is take cream of tartar seasoning, which is a by-product of wine making. Some people do not tolerate this for different reasons. Solutions are often highly individual.
Getting enough potassium from food comes down to multiple reasons for selecting a food, like level of carbohydrate sugars, and overall nutritional balance and compatibility. People with potassium as one of their top 3 deficiencies would do well to eat many foods with potassium, not just eat one food as if it is a supplement.
Many people think of bananas first, but those can be too sugary for many, and then greener unripe bananas are better.
Sweet potatoes and yams are known as good sources, but cooked starches are not he most healing foods.
Potatoes are high in potassium but people with potassium deficiency are often allergic to potatoes--that is just one of those oddball facts I cannot explain.
Fresh made vegetable juices can be a great source of potassium and are easy to digest even in high quantities because the fiber is removed. Juicing has so many benefits if you tolerate it and it fits need at any particular time.
Working with a potassium deficient person with energetic testing like muscle testing in person, or a pendulum long distance, they can test weak for everything until they test as strengthened by potassium and then take it on the spot. Then they test as strong for the next thing they need like magnesium. So when that person gets symptoms like being tired, they go to potassium. There may be a second and third in order of importance, etc.
After addressing potassium deficiency you may or may not tolerate salt again. if you do tolerate salt, increasing salt may help increase utilization of potassium even higher as these work together.
The deeper the health problems the more people need to address multiple nutritional deficiencies and excesses since a system is only as strong as its weakest link. Then the body can heal itself by addressing the relatively few root causes of the many symptoms.
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Other symptoms include heart problems, fatigue, muscle cramps, edema, and food allergies, especially to dairy.
My grandmother died before I was born and one of the symptoms was lymph-edema or swelling of the legs. My sister and mother have this, too. My mother responds well to increasing potassium, and must as a prerequisite to tolerating all other supplements and some foods, since potassium is her number one deficiency that holds everything else back.
I believe potassium deficiency is a big part of the problem of lymphatic congestion, along with nutritional excesses and lack of movement.
People with potassium deficiency tend to react to salt because sodium and potassium need to be in balance to work together and too much of one makes not enough of the other worse.
Potassium is crucial for health as part of the foundational triad with sodium and magnesium necessary for assimilating all other nutrients. These are the electrolytes associated with hydration. Potassium and sodium form a pump across the cell membrane to help bring nutrients in and waste out. When this isn’t working you are not absorbing nutrients and can be “allergic to everything.” Magnesium has more roles in the body than any other nutrient. Dairy allergies are especially common with potassium deficiency, even to raw milk which is much better than heated pasteurized milk. .
I observe that potassium is not well absorbed from supplements, but is best from vegetables, fruits, and even seafood.
While for sodium, salt works just fine, potassium salts like potassium chloride can be harder to utilize. If you want to try that get the one with the least additives, especially vegetable oils. Nu Salt is a better brand.
What many people do is take cream of tartar seasoning, which is a by-product of wine making. Some people do not tolerate this for different reasons. Solutions are often highly individual.
Getting enough potassium from food comes down to multiple reasons for selecting a food, like level of carbohydrate sugars, and overall nutritional balance and compatibility. People with potassium as one of their top 3 deficiencies would do well to eat many foods with potassium, not just eat one food as if it is a supplement.
Many people think of bananas first, but those can be too sugary for many, and then greener unripe bananas are better.
Sweet potatoes and yams are known as good sources, but cooked starches are not he most healing foods.
Potatoes are high in potassium but people with potassium deficiency are often allergic to potatoes--that is just one of those oddball facts I cannot explain.
Fresh made vegetable juices can be a great source of potassium and are easy to digest even in high quantities because the fiber is removed. Juicing has so many benefits if you tolerate it and it fits need at any particular time.
Working with a potassium deficient person with energetic testing like muscle testing in person, or a pendulum long distance, they can test weak for everything until they test as strengthened by potassium and then take it on the spot. Then they test as strong for the next thing they need like magnesium. So when that person gets symptoms like being tired, they go to potassium. There may be a second and third in order of importance, etc.
After addressing potassium deficiency you may or may not tolerate salt again. if you do tolerate salt, increasing salt may help increase utilization of potassium even higher as these work together.
The deeper the health problems the more people need to address multiple nutritional deficiencies and excesses since a system is only as strong as its weakest link. Then the body can heal itself by addressing the relatively few root causes of the many symptoms.
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